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NCT Number: NCT06315140

Assessing and Addressing Community Exposures to Environmental Contaminants

The purpose of this study is to build on our equitable, eight-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity and nutritional deficiency, prevent disease and promote health. Furthermore, assessing the extent of environmental contamination, individual toxicant burdens and micronutrient levels and health disorders in Ramapough Tribal members of both sexes as outlined in the following:

* Collect in-person/online survey information on demographics, health and food intake, nutrition, food security, and psychosocial stressors, and perform core anthropometric measurements (i.e., height, weight, body mass index, body circumference and blood pressure) at enrollment on Tribal members to inform health promotion strategies and community actions. * Determine individual-level contaminant burdens and micronutrient concentrations (e.g., iron, calcium, folate, vitamins) in urine and blood from surveyed (sub-aim 1a) Ramapough Turtle Clan volunteers. * Test soil, plants and surface water where Turtle Clan residents live, recreate and attend church in Ringwood, NJ using a community-based, citizen scientist approach.

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Key information

Conditions

Environmental Exposure

Age range

18 year–80 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

NYU Langone Health

New York, 10016, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Male or female between the age of 18 - 80 years old at the time of enrollment
  • Living on the streets of Halifax Road, Orange Turnpike, Ramapo Ave, 1st-7th Streets, Mountain Avenue and Fox Hollow Road in Hillburn, NY; Peter's Mine Road, Canon Mine Road, Pipeline Road, Milligan Drive, Cable House Road and Van Dunk Lane in Ringwood, NJ; Stag Hill Road, and Ramapo Brae Lane in Mahwah, NJ
  • Willing and able to provide consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant women and individuals under 18 or over 80 years old
  • Do not live in the identified streets above and/or have lived there for less than 2 years will be excluded from the study

Treatment and study plan

Nutrition

Other

The intervention will build on the 11-year Tribal-academic partnership with the Ramapough Nation of northern NJ to advance tradition-centered farming practices and management strategies supporting sustainable food systems to relieve local food insecurity. Working with the Ramapough-leased Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal farm (growing produce/crops on clean soil) will provide the tribe with nutrition-rich foods and recipes for nutritious cooking. The interventions aims to return healthy soil on the farm allowing for healthy plant production.

Primary outcomes

  1. Proportion of individuals with heavy metal contaminants in home water samples

    Time frame: through study completion, an average 2 years

    Outcome measures will be collected using home water samples.

  2. Proportion of individuals with heavy metal and metalloid contaminations in blood biospecimens

    Time frame: through study completion, an average 2 years

    Outcomes measures will be evaluated using blood samples from the Ramapough Lunaape Tribe.

  3. Proportion of individuals with heavy metal and metalloid contaminations in urine biospecimens

    Time frame: through study completion, an average 2 years

    Outcomes measures will be evaluated using urine samples from the Ramapough Lunaape Tribe.

  4. Proportion of individuals with insufficient blood serum micronutrient levels

    Time frame: through study completion, an average 2 years

    Outcome measures will be evaluated using blood serum from the Ramapough Lunaape tribe.

  5. Proportion of individuals with health disorders

    Time frame: through study completion, an average 2 years

    Health status will be assessed using anthropometric measures including blood pressure, body weight, waist circumference, height and Body Mass Index (BMI).

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Erica Pratt

CONTACT

[email protected]

646-754-9447

Judith T. Zelikoff, PhD

CONTACT

[email protected]

646-754-9451

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

NYU Langone Health

Other

Collaborators

  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)

Registry information

Official study title

Building Food Sovereignty, Sustainability and Better Health in Environmentally-impacted Native Americans

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Mar 18, 2024
Registry last updated
Jan 29, 2026

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